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35 years of tech history via a personal collection

Microsoft researcher Bill Buxton have no intention of creating a tech museum but his personal hobby of collecting technological devices is giving us a tour in past via his 35 year old collection to allow us to view how the technological market evolved, and how certain devices got popular while other ideas went extinct. His [...]

NetBooks are getting powerful and feature rich

Some may have predicted that NetBook market would soon die infront of the raising market demands of the tablets like iPAD (Apple iOS) or motorola XOOM (Android). However due to their low end pricing and powerful hardware, NetBooks are far from being phased out. HP recently came up with a 1.3kg (3 lbs) netbook with [...]

Download Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 for free

Comodo Internet Security Pro 2011 costing USD 50 a year is now offered free for first year license. The Security suite includes a VB100 certified Comodo AV engine along with award wining firewall and other protection features. Download one year free subscription -> http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/internet-security-pro.php The Software supports Windows XP / VIsta and 7 under both [...]

PC vs MAC.. Let’s compare..

Microsoft has launched a new advertisement campaign against Apple MAC. Aiming towards the upcoming summer sessions, this campaign offers an in-depth comparison of a MAC (all the range) with similar PC counterparts to show the price and configuration difference and available options on the PC platform. Starting from 11″ MacBook Air to the highest end [...]

One laptop / notebook / iPAD casing which can protect a 500ft drop

G-Form, a little known extreme sports safety gear development and manufacturing company from USA came up with a notebook / laptop casing, which can protect your computer from some extreme condition, such as drop from balcony, or even from a height of 500ft. The products are around USD 80 and the company is now accepting [...]

World’s most powerful laptop/notebook -> The Alienware

You have a swimming pool full money ? You want the best no matter you dont know what to do with the best ? You have 3/4 Stewart always ready to serve you and travel with you where ever you go ? Then this is the product you must have.. Weighting a whooping 6-8 kg, [...]

Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor) update -> Works with video too

Couple of years ago Microsoft Research came out with a nice piece of software, the Microsoft Image Composite Editor. A software that gave effort less ability to any one with any camera to create beautiful and amazing panoramic pictures. Recently, Microsoft has released a new version for the ICE with ability to create panoramic images [...]

SLi for AMD is now reality

SLI was only possible with Intel processors since nVidia never allowed AMD to bundle this technology with their chipset running AMD processors. This action meant that if a gamer chooses to use AMD processor to built his/her rig, he or she would be forced to use crossfire as that is the only dual graphics card [...]

One more reason as why Microsoft is losing browser market share

There was time when Microsoft Internet explorer used to rule the internet browser market share. But ever since the birth of Mozilla FireFox in late 2004, that success story is slowly fading away. Microsoft Internet explorer used to rule the browser market with over 90% market share under its belt, but in past 4/5 years, [...]

Mozilla FireFox 5 and FireFox 6 (Alfa) is available for download

As Microsoft released platform preview for IE10, Mozilla seems to be on top gear to push their development process to get their 5th and 6th major version towards release. FireFox 5 and FireFox 6 (Alfa) is now available via Mozilla public ftp. Download FireFox 5 -> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2011-04-13-09-mozilla-aurora/ Download FireFox 6 (alfa) -> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-tracemonkey/ Please do [...]

Two years into Microsoft Security Essential

Its been almost two years since Microsoft Security Essential first made its appearance into Microsoft Connect website for internal beta testing. First it was in my Virtual installations and then slowly it started to become primary AVS in my Netbook, laptop and with release of MSE 2.0 in my primary desktop as well. No matter [...]

Adobe software available on monthly rent

Adobe is providing much of their premium software range, the Adobe (creative suite) CS 5.5 on monthly rent. The package includes, Creative Suite Design Premium Creative Suite Design Standard Creative Suite Web Premium Creative Suite Production Premium Creative Suite Master Collection Photoshop Photoshop Extended Illustrator InDesign Dreamweaver Flash Professional Adobe Premiere Pro After Effects Price [...]

FireFox 4 Final is here

After an extensive beta testing program, finally the FireFox 4 is now officially launched. Download it from below official Mozilla download section -> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html This time, with FF 4.0, Mozilla would also explore the ongoing smart phone market by making FF 4.0 mobile edition available for Google AndRoid and Nokia 900 platform. FireFox 4 Mobile -> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/download/

Google bought Green Parrot Pictures for youtube video corrections

Google bought an Irish company called “Green Parrot Pictures” to use some of their technology for their Youtube web service to enhance user uploaded video and correct some of their demerits like Shake, picture quality and frame rate issue. Green Parrot Pictures have previously worked in Hollywood hits like X-MEN / LOTR / Spider Man and such. [...]

How to switch between different version of Internet Explorer

When in IE9, just hit F12 key from your keyboard to change the way a website is rendered in the viewing pane to see how it looks or works in IE7 or IE8. Its a simple and quick way to switch the browsers (Internet explorer) versions, helpful for website developers to test their application compatibility [...]

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